Fat Tony to Today I [email protected]English • edit-29 days agoTIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).lemmy.worldmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1392
arrow-up1392playTIL cows can suffer from fatal bloated stomachs. A way of treating it is by puncture and burning the released methane gas (to determine how much is remaining).lemmy.worldFat Tony to Today I [email protected]English • edit-29 days agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•8 days agoPedant here: corn is a grass. Modified by centuries of selective breeding, and not endemic to the region where the aurochs were domesticated.
minus-squarePyrlinkfedilinkEnglish8•8 days agoCorn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating. Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-28 days agoAfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•8 days agoCorn is grass the same way sugar is grass or bread is grass.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 days agoNot quite the same way. Bread and sugar are products we make from grasses (wheat & sugar cane). High fructose corn syrup is grass in the same way as sugar and bread, and beer for that matter.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 days agoIt has been cultivated to produce huge starchy kernels and is then refined to remove all other parts.
Pedant here: corn is a grass. Modified by centuries of selective breeding, and not endemic to the region where the aurochs were domesticated.
Corn is a grass, but you are typically feeding them the grain of the grass rather than the stalks and leaves which they should be eating.
Normally grass grains aren’t the majority diet of cows, it’s the leaves.
AfaIk, the entire plant is chopped, fermented and fed to cattle. Yet, compared to grass, corn has a higher content on easily digestable carbohydrates.
Corn is grass the same way sugar is grass or bread is grass.
Not quite the same way. Bread and sugar are products we make from grasses (wheat & sugar cane).
High fructose corn syrup is grass in the same way as sugar and bread, and beer for that matter.
It has been cultivated to produce huge starchy kernels and is then refined to remove all other parts.